Prosecco Prelude VIP Reception (4:30 PM - 5:15 PM): Meet and greet our special guests Jamelle Bouie, Nell Painter, and David Blight in the "Dreaming of Timbuctoo" Exhibit in the Upper Barn: David Blight: Professor of History, award-winning author, and leading expert on slavery and the American Civil War Jamelle [...]

Juneteenth, short for “June Nineteenth,” celebrates the effective end of chattel slavery in the United States when, on this date in 1865 and two and a half years after President Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, nearly 2,000 federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to ensure the freeing of all [...]